Luxury watches, iPads and a Jaguar: what SNP chief executive Peter Murrell bought with embezzled funds

Peter Murrell was chief executive of the Scottish National Party (SNP) while his wife Nicola Sturgeon was party leader and at time First Minister of Scotland. A piece in The Guardian. Extracts:

“Murrell bought a luxury SUV – a Jaguar iPace – for £81,000, subsided with £57,500 stolen from the SNP money, which he later sold for £47,378, pocketing the proceeds. There was also a £124,550 Niesmann+Bischoff motorhome, which he parked on his mother’s driveway, and for which he created fake invoices.

He used a further £16,489 of SNP money to part-fund the purchase of a £32,989 Volkswagen Golf.

Murrell also spent on high-end pens and watches: £9,350 on two Bremont watches, [J4MB: One for himself, one for his mother, no doubt] £4,225 on a Starwalker World Time fountain pen, £1,407 on two Montblanc Boheme Noir fountain pens and £700 on a boldly striped Great Characters The Beatles Special Edition Fountain Pen in 14-karat gold.

In November 2020, the indictment notes that he spent £650.75 at Fortnum & Mason, buying two of its Feasting Advent calendars for £400 and a Musical Santa’s Sleigh Advent calendar at £165. Earlier in 2020, £2,618.16 went on two Lalique Feuilles pepper & salt grinders. There was a silver wine coaster, too, for £3,500 – and a £2,495 jewellery box.”

Sturgeon has claimed total ignorance of her husband’s embezzlement of party funds, and the police long ago decided not to investigate her further. If the odious woman is telling the truth, I’m a Norwegian Blue parrot.

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Nawal El Saadawi, prominent Muslim feminist, condemns MGM (BBC radio, 2018). File #302 of 800+ files on the J4MB YouTube channel.

Today’s file is here (5:04).

Over a period of more than two years we’re posting links to one video daily from the J4MB YouTube channel. The channel includes our media appearances since 2012, 300+ videos of talks and other materials from the International Conferences on Men’s Issues (2014 – ) and other men’s issues conferences we’ve been involved with, and so much more. The individual conference playlists are here.

Our website Campaign for Merit in Business was created in the light of the considerable evidence of a causal link between increasing gender diversity on boards and corporate financial decline. Mike Buchanan, Steve Moxon and Dr Catherine Hakim (the originator of Preference Theory) presented evidence to House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries in 2012, the video of their House of Commons evidence session is here (56:50).

Finally, we run the award-winning website Laughing at Feminists. The related comedy channel (170+ videos) is here. Remember, it’s more than important to laugh at feminists, it’s a civic duty.  

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Dr Max Pemberton: “I’m a doctor and am circumcised myself. But I see the REAL devastating sexual consequences of this mutilating procedure every day. Here’s what no one tells you…”

We’ve posted a number of blog pieces relating to Dr Max Pemberton over the years, including one on his article for the Daily Mail in 2018. They’re all here.

The start of his Wikipedia page:

“Max Pemberton is a British medical doctor, journalist and author. He works full-time as a psychiatrist in the National Health Service. He is a weekly columnist for the Daily Mail, writing comment on news events concerning culture, social and ethical issues, the politics of health care and the NHS. Before his move to the Daily Mail, he was a columnist for the Daily Telegraph. He also writes a monthly column for Reaser’s Digest and is a regular contributor to The Spectator. He is the editor of Spectator Health, a quarterly supplement from The Spectator.”

I was very pleased to be directed to a new article by Dr Pemberton in yesterday’s Daily Mail and have just taken out a subscription so as to be able to read it. It’s an outstanding article and you can take out a free trial of the paper, which you can cancel at any time. There were 800+ comments in response to the article and I left this:

“Respect to Dr Pemberton for this article. Not many know this, but carrying out Male Genital Mutilation (along with Female Genital Mutilation) is a crime under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, being at least ABH but almost certainly GBH. It’s just that the (in)criminal justice system does nothing about it. I tried to bring a private prosecution of a doctor years ago but was denied leave to bring the case.

Justice for Men & Boys – a political party from 2013 to 2023 – has been campaigning against this ancient butchery since 2013.

Mike Buchanan

JUSTICE FOR MEN & BOYS

CAMPAIGN FOR MERIT IN BUSINESS

LAUGHING AT FEMINISTS”

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MEN STOP DRINKING – daily Zoom video meetings

I am pleased to remind everyone about my initiative Men Stop Drinking.

I have been abstinent since September 2025 and I am doing what I can to help men with drinking problems achieve permanent abstinence. They may be able to do so quickly and effectively – as I did – with a drug licensed by the FDA in 1951 (75 years ago). I have created a new website (link above), and I’m hosting Zoom video meetings daily (Monday – Saturday) for men who have problems with alcohol. The meetings start at 7:00pm (19:00) GMT/UTC and last at least an hour. Details of the philosophy behind the meetings, and guidelines for them, can be found here. You can join the meetings by clicking here.

The meeting time has been chosen to give convenient access to men living in the UK and other European countries, and as far west as the west coast of the United States.

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Philip Davies MP reveals MGM is illegal, House of Commons International Men’s Day debate, 2018. Video #301 of 800+ videos on the J4MB YouTube channel.

Today’s video is here (4:27).

Over a period of more than two years we’re posting links to one video daily from the J4MB YouTube channel. The channel includes our media appearances since 2012, 300+ videos of talks and other materials from the International Conferences on Men’s Issues (2014 – ) and other men’s issues conferences we’ve been involved with, and so much more. The individual conference playlists are here.

Our website Campaign for Merit in Business was created in the light of the considerable evidence of a causal link between increasing gender diversity on boards and corporate financial decline. Mike Buchanan, Steve Moxon and Dr Catherine Hakim (the originator of Preference Theory) presented evidence to House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries in 2012, the video of their House of Commons evidence session is here (56:50).

Finally, we run the award-winning website Laughing at Feminists. The related comedy channel (170+ videos) is here. Remember, it’s more than important to laugh at feminists, it’s a civic duty.  

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